Welcome to the wonderful world of The Edge Chronicles created by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart. Chris has created a set of six original drawings of some of the main characters specially for the Guardian children's books site – and is kindly giving away the complete set to the lucky winner of our competition. All you have to do is to email childrens.books@theguardian.com with the headline 'Edge Chronicles' by midnight on Sunday 23 March 2014 to be in with a chance to win these stunning drawings plus a copy of new Edge Chronicles book: The Nameless One : Book 1 of the Cade Saga. Four lucky runners up will each receive a copy of the book too.

This picture shows Featherfule the waif on route to his home city of Riverrise in the heart of the Night Woods.

The award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell has made this exclusive set of six gorgeous drawings specially for Guardian children's books to celebrate the publication of the first in a new series of The Edge Chronicles, which he creates with Paul Stewart

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Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown teaches us how to draw Rattus, the pesky narrator of the series which includes Terrible Trenches – one of the World Book Day £1 reads

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. Photograph: Murray Close

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Jacqueline Wilson sits down with site members TwilightVi (dressed up as Diamond) and Lottie Longshanks (in costume as Hetty) for a Q&A about creating characters and answering that all important question: will there be another book about Hetty and Diamond?

16-year-old Nathan is an anomaly in a modern day England where humans and witches co-exist. White witches are good, black witches are evil – but Nathan is both. Persecuted by both sides, when he turns 17, Nathan will receive three gifts from his father – the most powerful black witch in the world – and become a witch in his own right. But if he can't escape in time, he will die.